Thomas Wallgren PhD is a Swedish-speaking Finnish

Finland

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 philosopher, activist and politician. He studied philosophy at the University of Helsinki

University of Helsinki

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 and where he is now a lecturer and docent

Docent

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. He was active in the Koijärvi environmental movement

Environmental movement

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 in the 1980s, and opposed Finnish membership of the European Union

European Union

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. Among his "environmental stunts" was buying shares in large Finnish corporations, such as Nokia, only for the purpose of gaining the right to speak at their shareholders' conferences, where he would then raise the issue of the company's lack of environmentalism. In 2008, he was elected to the Helsinki City Council as a Social Democrat

Social Democratic Party of Finland

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Selection of Wallgren books in English

• "Transformative Philosophy. Socrates, Wittgenstein, and the democratic spirit of philosophy", Lexington Books, 2005.
• "Challenge of philosophy: Beyond contemplation and critical theory", 1996.
• "Commonality and particularity in ethics", edited with Lilli Alanen
  Lilli Alanen
  Lilli Alanen is a Finnish philosopher and Professor of History of Philosophy at Department of Philosophy at Uppsala University, Sweden...
  
  and Sara Heinämaa, Macmillan, 1997.

Articles by Wallgren in English

• "Georg Henrik von Wright: a Memorial Notice". Philosophical Investigations, 28: 1–13, 2005.